Custom Lockers — Built in Surrey, BC

Lockers Built Like Heirloom Furniture.

Most lockers are something you bolt to a wall and forget. Ours are something you walk past every morning and feel a little better about. Built one at a time in our Surrey shop — same hands, same patience, same standards we bring to a kitchen or a heritage restoration.

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Why custom?

A locker is just a small cabinet with a job to do.

That's how we think about it. A locker has to take a beating, lock up tight, and last twenty years — and there's no reason it can't look beautiful while it does. We build lockers out of real materials: solid hardwoods, baltic birch ply, powder-coated steel hardware, brass and bronze where it makes sense.

Off-the-shelf lockers are made for everyone, which means they're not really made for anyone. Yours will fit your space, your crew, your colours, your hardware, and the way your people actually use them.

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Armstrong Custom Cabinets shop — lockers being built in Surrey, BC

A few of our favourites

Locker Styles We Love to Build.

Seven places to start. Every one of these gets adjusted to your space, your trade, and your taste. If you don't see what you're after, ask — we've probably built something close.

Workplace

The Zeppelin

Heavy. Reliable. Built to go the distance. Like the band, this one doesn't cut corners and doesn't quit early. Boots, jackets, lunch, hard hat, the kid's drawing taped to the inside of the door. Wood-fronted, steel-framed, and tough enough that nobody's replacing it any time soon.

Gyms & Studios

The Hendrix

Electric. Distinctive. Won't look like anyone else's. For gyms, dance studios, climbing walls, and yoga shops that refuse to let their changeroom look like a high school in 1988. Vented, durable, and finished in tones that match your brand instead of fighting it.

Residential

The Everyman

Tom Petty said it best — you belong somewhere you feel free. One bay per kid (or per dog), with a bench, a bin for boots, hooks for everything that gets hung up wet, and a top shelf for the things you don't want them touching. Built into your entryway like it was always supposed to be there.

Schools & Daycares

The School of Rock

Cubbies, coat hooks, name plates, and cheerful colours, built kid-tough. Rounded corners, no pinch points, and finishes that wipe clean after juice-box incidents. Every great musician started somewhere — so did every great craftsman. We've built these for daycares across the Lower Mainland and they hold up beautifully.

Heritage & Restoration

The Relic

Guitar builders call them relics — instruments aged to honour their history. We build these for old hotels, fire halls, train stations, and school gymnasiums where a brand-new locker would feel wrong. We rebuild what's salvageable and match what isn't, using period-appropriate hardware and finishes. Insurance-restoration-friendly.

Retail & Hospitality

The Bowie

Bowie never hid in the back. Neither should your lockers. Coat checks, boutique change rooms, hotel staff areas, restaurant cubbies — finished to the same standard as the rest of your interior, not shoved behind a back wall apologizing for itself. Every persona, impeccably dressed.

Athletic Teams

The Red Special

Brian May built the Red Special in a bedroom. It ended up headlining stadiums. These lockers are built the same way — no shortcuts, no off-the-shelf sizing. Whether you're outfitting a minor hockey club or a pro facility, the room where athletes suit up sets the tone before a single play is made. Custom nameplate slots, gear-depth compartments, team colours in the finish.

How we work

Four steps from conversation to install.

Conversation

You tell us where they're going, what they need to hold, and what you wish your last lockers had done. We listen. There's no charge for this part.

Design

We measure, sketch, and pick materials together. You see drawings before any wood gets cut. Nothing is locked in until you're happy with it.

Build

Built in our Surrey shop. Five sets of hands, no production line, no flat-pack shortcuts. We'll send progress photos so you can watch them come together.

Install

We deliver and install across the Lower Mainland. Levelled, secured, and tuned up — doors swing the way they should, locks click clean, and we don't leave until you've opened every one.

A note from the shop

Before cabinets, there were guitars.

Richard spent twenty years building custom electrics for rock musicians — including a full recreation of Brian May's Red Special (the guitar May built with his father from a fireplace mantel) and a run of Van Halen Frankenstrat tributes for collectors who cared deeply about getting it right. The kind of work where one wrong cut means starting over with a piece of wood that took fifty years to grow. That ear for grain, joinery, and finish didn't go anywhere when he switched to cabinets. It's in every locker we build. You'll feel it the first time you close the door.

Let's build something

Tell us about your space.

Five-person shop. Surrey, BC. Serving the Lower Mainland and farther when the project is right. We'll come look, measure, and put a real number in front of you — no obligation, no pressure.

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